Glock magazine identification video

[Librarian]

Via the folks at TTAG

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/03/robert-farago/everything-ever-wanted-know-glock-magazines-lotyou-didnt/

Kind of have to be a Glock nerd to find it deeply interesting; I thought it 'nice once, do not want to memorize'.

[Lonestargrizzly]

I've thought about coloring the bottoms of my Glock mags, but that is because I want a Glock in 357 sig and I don't want to confuse the mags loaded with 357 sig with my 9mm mags.

[basketball fan]

How do you paint those?

[Librarian]

Not a bad idea. I paint mine. Train too much with others. Everyone's mags look the same. Not I said the cow.

I did a class with some night training; I stuck bits of reflective tape on mine, so I could find them with a flashlight.

I've also stuck those free self-stick address labels on the base plates. They fall off, eventually.

[Glocked@45]

I've thought about coloring the bottoms of my Glock mags, but that is because I want a Glock in 357 sig and I don't want to confuse the mags loaded with 357 sig with my 9mm mags.

I use one drop of nail polish on the back of each mag. Orange 40 cal, Blue 9mm, Yellow 45 cal. Makes it easy on my eyes when I am loading gear to go to the range or at the range loading mags.

The weird part is looking at all the colors and at the check out.

[Germ1]

Only thing I want to know about Glock magazines is why they made them so damn hard to disassemble. I like Glock, but the magazines are stupid hard to get apart. I haven't cleaned my magazines since I bought the gun. For ten thousand rounds, because they're impossible to get apart. Guess when the springs wear out I'll just buy new magazines, lol.

[Germ1]

I've thought about coloring the bottoms of my Glock mags, but that is because I want a Glock in 357 sig and I don't want to confuse the mags loaded with 357 sig with my 9mm mags.

I paint numbers on all of mine. Not for the reason you mentioned. I paint numbers on mine so if I start having malfunctions I know which magazine it is. May be a worn mag spring, never keep track of it if it's not painted. Which is a real concern for me with how much I shoot.

[CandG]

Only thing I want to know about Glock magazines is why they made them so damn hard to disassemble. I like Glock, but the magazines are stupid hard to get apart. I haven't cleaned my magazines since I bought the gun. For ten thousand rounds, because they're impossible to get apart. Guess when the springs wear out I'll just buy new magazines, lol.

Pinch the sides of the mag with a pair of vice grips (padded with something), stick an allen key in the hole in the bottom, and pull the baseplate off. I don't clean my mags either, but I have installed quite a few Pearce baseplates and it isn't very difficult after you get the hang of it.

[CandG]

Some times I'll stick a punch in the hole. Get the dimple out of the way and whack the bottom with a rubber mallet. That thing will fly off! Lol.
I'm a master at it now

I don't know about all Glocks, but my Gen3 Glock mags have little tabs (on the mag body) that lock into slots (on the baseplate). If you squeeze the mag body just enough to free the tabs from the slots, the basplate comes right off after you push the "button" in the bottom of the baseplate. Just don't squeeze so hard that you mess up the mag body.

This picture of orange baseplates provides enough color contrast to show what I'm referring to: